Recording the actual start and finish dates of tasks per progress period

If you use multiple progress periods in a project, you can view the actual start and actual finish dates of the progress that was marked in each individual progress period in the spreadsheet. You do this by displaying the Actual start and Actual finish date fields in the spreadsheet and specifying the progress period to which you want the date to apply.

You may find it useful to set up a series of columns that display the actual start and actual finish of tasks in each of your progress periods.

To display actual start or actual finish dates relating to a specific progress period:

Add a column to the spreadsheet that displays either the Actual start or Actual finish field.
On the Column Definitions tab of the Table Definition Properties dialog, select the field that you have added to the spreadsheet.
Select the progress period to which you want the field to refer in the Progress period field.
Enter an appropriate description for the spreadsheet column in the Column title field - if you set up more than one column, with each one displaying actual start or finish dates for a different progress period, include the progress period name in the column title.
Click Close.

If you specify a progress period when displaying the Actual start or Actual finish field, you cannot use the spreadsheet column to mark new progress, but you can amend the actual finish date of tasks against which progress has already been marked in the progress period in question.